Thorndale House

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Thordale House Delgany

From Buildings of Ireland website

Thorndale house was a two story detached gentleman’s house, the original house was three bay and it had a later two storey two bay extension to the East of the original house. More recent extensions were added to the rear. The main original house was built c1860.

The first occupier was John Symes Gifford who was married to Beata nee Glasgott, John was a  and died in Delgany in 1867, John Symes was an Army Officer rising to the rank of Major in the 1^st Native Infantry of the East India Company. Later it  was resided in by Mrs. Anne Jeffers, who resided at Thorndale in 1881.Later occupied by the Glascott family. By the end of the 19th century Thorndale was the home of George and Margaret Ponder. George was a barrister and died at Thorndale in 1900 aged 80. He used to reside with his sister Margaret who died in Delgany in 1897. By 1906 Thorndale is resided in by Captain Thomas Carson Burnside, he was a Captain of the Mercantile Marine. Later the home of Sandes Crosbie Woodroffe. In the mid to late 1920’s Thorndale was resided in by Alfred Tudor MacDermott, who was an engineer and the nephew of Charles Stewart Parnell MP. By the 1930’s Thorndale was the residence of His Grace, the most Rev Edward Byrne, DD who was the Roman Catholic, Archbishop of Dublin. Byrne was the son of County Wicklow farmer Edward Byrne and his wife Eleanor. After Archbishop Byrnes death Thorndale was briefly the resident of his successor Dr. McQuaid.

By the wind of the 1940’s this house became the residence of Edith Sybil Dobbs, the spinster daughter of Robert Conway Dobbs of County Waterford. Edith died in 1961 and after Dobbs Thorndale was the residence of Dermod Cafferky a director of Eamon Andrews Studios in Dublin.